164 days ago
by Gary Fixler |
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I promise not to start posting every log I resaw (lest my blog becoming nothing but!), but I think folks interested in resawing, or copying the jig I just made might like to see some more samples.
First, I forgot I got some shots of this (before giving it away as a gift to a coworker girl who wants to paint on it like a canvas), but here’s some of that first log of Ficus microcarpa, resawn to veneer-like thinness:
It’s about 1/16”-3/32” thick on one end, ...
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629 days ago
by Jojo |
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A couple of weeks ago I was wandering through the city in my bike looking for a calm place to study when I stumbled upon a huge ensemble of temples that I didn’t know beforehand. It doesn’t matter that it is about 60 acres in surface, there are so many temples and shrines here that you just dont pay attention to them anymore. From the street you barely see a small gate and once inside it gets slowly revealed to you.
I only got to explore a few of the buildings but this is what ...
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756 days ago
by Jojo |
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It really doesn’t need any comments, the pictures speak for themselves…
http://www.jefflohr.com/news.htm
It’s a lifetime dream to be able to work on a piece like this… without having to paid for the slab and, in addition, being payed big bucks for it (I guess).
On the other hand, what a source of stress though. I bet it is really nerve-wrecking until the slab is sliced and dried out.
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764 days ago
by Dekker |
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While my other boxes are receiving their final finishes, I have decided to start on another pair of boxes. The design is based on something I saw in a book, but I can not remember which at this moment. They are short (probably only 1-1/4” tall) and not very long (about 3-1/2”) with a slab lid that is removed with the use of a finger-hole on the side wall of the carcase.
The nice thing about the design is its frugality: It only takes one piece of wood 17” long and 1-1/4...
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800 days ago
by Bob Babcock |
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I’ve always been fascinated by large trees. I remember as a kid being amazed by them. I was 12 years old when my mother and I went out to visit my brother in Calif. We took a ride up to see the sequoia’s. What an amazing feeling to walk amongst them. I still carry it with me to this day.
My daughters think i’m a little weird. My oldest daughter went to Salve Regina in Newport for awhile and during every visit I would walk the campus admiring the extraordinary tree collect...
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836 days ago
by Bob Babcock |
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In the previous post I created a natural edge slab using some existing wood grains and a bark texture I had edited in Photoshop. This time we’ll create a representation of a real slab of cedar that I have.
1st…I took some photos of the slab grain and bark and edited them in Photoshop to crop out any extra.
Slab Grain
Bark
Here’s how to use them in Sketchup
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945 days ago
by frank |
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Bench Dogging After Greene and Greene
And so we now move on to the getting of legs, and in all your getting, be sure to take what you can use.
Moving now to the fourth bay of my barn on the south side, I have a bay filled with lumber from past accumulated workings of wood projects. Looking through the rows of some stickered and some stacked lumber, I soon found what I thought would make some good legs for the table bench dogs. The pine I decided on using was left over from a barn door ...
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953 days ago
by frank |
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Providere, a Work In Process
Well I finished roughing out a shape of the last of four legs last night with the drawknife, and I thought I would post a picture of where the ‘in the process’ of Providere now stands.
1) Cherry backsplash, needs to enter into it’s hand sanding phase, starting with #120 grit….and ending with some slurpies….
2) Table top, needs to be worked some more on sides with a timber slick to get a better trueness….
3) End board...
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